Square Enix releases a new musical game today: Love Live! School Idol Festival ~ after school ACTIVITY ~. Love Live! is a multimedia project developped by ASCII Media Works, Lantis and Sunrise about school girls who become idols to save their school that is going to shut down. There are already many adaptations of the project: CD, anime, mangas, and video games. The arcade game is a rhythm game that will be based ond the iOS/Android version. The players must press the buttons at the right time according to the symbols that appear on the screen. They can collect profile and members card. New songs are available compared to the smartphone version as well as outfits for the characters.

reflec BEAT The Reflesia of Eternity starts operation in Japan today. This is the sixth game in the REFLEC BEAT series. This time, the game theme is fantasy. So, fantasy is everywhere in the game: visual, game modes, music, quest. Even Pastel-kun wears fantasy clothes! The main character illustrator is MAYA. reflec BEAT The Reflesia of Eternity introduces new objects: Big Bang Objects and Switch Long Objects that replace the Slide Objects from reflec BEAT VOLZZA. The Big Bang Objects are long horizontal bars that can be touched anywhere. When they are touched, it causes a screen shaking effect. The Switch Long Objects have 2 bars: a yellow (ON) and a purple (OFF), both must be repeat until the end of the object. As usual with new versions, some new songs appear and some songs are removed.

Dream Festival! is a Data Carddass game that is out in Japan today. Dream Festival! is a multimedia project from Bandai Namco including an animated series, CD, shows, smartphones apps, cards,... This licence is targeted to a feminine audience. The story is about Kanade Amamiya, a second year high school student and his friends Shin Oikawa, Junya Sasaki, Itsuki Katagiri & Chizuru Sawamura. They participate to the Dream Festival, a first step to become singers. During the festival, fans come with Dream Cards that they use to support their favourite singer to unlock him new outfits and offer additional stage performing.

We already knew that Sega would bring Target Bravo: Operation G.H.O.S.T. and Let's Go Island Dream Edition at IAAPA Attractions Expo 2016. But Sega still had to unveil their flagship title and this is done with Daytona 3 Championship USA! The game will include three remastered circuits from the original Daytona USA and 3 new tracks including the modern version of Daytona International Speedway. There will be new cars and new game modes and a live camera system displaying players faces in the game. Good news: developers used the original engine as a base (especially for AI and slipstream management), that should reassure the players who are afraid of ending up with a game lacking in arcade sensations as that was the case with the last Western Sega racing games. As Patrick Michael, head of R&D says: "How could we improve the best?". Another dispelled point of concern: music will be composed by Takenobu Mitsuyoshi. No photo of the cabinet has surfaced yet but we already know that it will feature a 47" LED screen and a topper sporting a 27" screen displaying what's happening in the race "Live TV" style. The machine will be fully lit with LEDs and the bottom of the seat will be moulded after a car engine. Like the previous games (dismissing Sega Racing Classic), a network of up to 8 players will be supported! Operators will enjoy a party mode to organize special events and Sega-IQ intelligent menus in the service mode. Will Daytona 3 live up to the expectations that such a name implies? See it for yourself at the IAAPA Attractions Expo in Orlando on November 15!

Konami's beatmania series success is still big and going on with the release of beatmania IIDX 24 SINOBUZ today. As usual, this new episode is accompanied by a new visual theme. This time, this is the Ninjas. For the first time in the series, the visuals and the BMG change according to the day of the week. On the game side, there are a few new features: the "Ninja Rank" to evaluate the players skills and the "teacher-student" system. It works as a link between two players and they get rewards when their relationship evolves.

On October 21, Sega announced a new RPG game for smartphone: Soul Reverse Zero. It will be available on IOS and Android in November but it will be released on another platform as well. The game is developed by AM2. It's the first product in the Soul Reverse series, an original licence that Sega plans to develop. The story sees the main hero having to summon heroes from other dimensions to help save his world from destruction. At least 60 heroes such as King Arthur, Oda Nobunaga and Cleopatra will be available. Each hero will have skills with different effects. The animation is produced by Production I.G. On October 25, Sega revealed that Soul Reverse will also be available in arcades! The main theme song can be listened to on the website that just opened.

The Flanders Expo (Ghent) will be the place to be this week-end for all sci-fi, comics, anime and cosplay fans! FACTS, the Belgian Comic Con will be held from Saturday 22 (10:00 to 19:00) to Sunday 23(10:00 to 17:00) October. This year, all the halls of the Flanders Expo will be used. As every year, famous actors will be present. Visitors can meet David Hasselhoff, Sean Astin, Sylvester McCoy, Erika Eleniak, Kristin Bauer and many others in hall 4. Many artists will also be present: Alvaro Martinez Bueno, Lucio Parrillo, Stephen B. Scott, Jérôme Alquié,... Visitors will have a lot of things to see and to do during the two days: cosplay contests, fan village, workshops, guests, shopping, ... and even speed dates. Hall 2 will be fully dedicated to gaming with many stands where visitors can try the latest titles from big publishers and play retro games... Arcade Belgium will occupy booth 217 with 20 arcade machines set on freeplay including all time classics such as Time Crisis II, OutRun2 SP, DoDonPachi Daioujou Tamashii, Strider Hiryu 2, Puyo Puyo Fever, The Simpsons, Teenage Muntant Hero Turtles - Turles in Time, Hyper Street Fighter II, etc... We'll organize two free tournaments: a Spawn - In the Demon's Hand 4-player battle royal on Saturday and a Garou - Mark of the Wolves tourney on Sunday. Registration at 13:30 and tournaments at 14:00.